Gavin O'Connor Quotes
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.
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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
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Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
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Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously.
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I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.
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I just really love being in my pajamas.
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In the past, my aspirations were as arty as they could get, and I'm really embarrassed by it.
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I've said that I would play anything to do with 'Star Wars.' But really, deep down, I would love to come back as Darth Maul - that's what I want to do. I would go crazy, go mental, lock myself in a cabin, you know. Do the whole 'method' for two or three months, spear-fishing and stuff, just to play the character again.
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The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
